Softly, But Still Terrorism
Those whom malignant forces target for an aggressive campaign of suggested response to perceived incidents of taking the name of religious figures in vain embark on a mission of terror. Silk-gloved it may be, couched in polite terms of respect, and justice, and sensitivity, but inherent in those quietly deliberate verbal daggers lie the visions of what has occurred, and what will re-occur.The newspaper Politiken, published in Copenhagen, has submitted to proffering a public apology on terms insisted upon by an Islamist law firm.
Of course, before this latest event occurred, when the original cartoons provoked a concerted and deliberately-incited outrage in the Islamic world against insults the Danish cartoonists heaped upon the Prophet Mohammad, other newspapers, taking full note, were exceedingly careful to write of the event, but not to reproduce those cartoons in fear of inspiring like revenge.
It was left to Denmark to defend freedom of the press, and to become a victim of Islamist hysteria, serious enough to result in deaths and wholesale destruction of property, along with a boycott of Danish goods formerly sold in Arab and Islamic countries of the world.
Even yet, the life of 74-year-old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is endangered, with more than one fatwa having been issued against him, fulminations against him constant and unforgiving, and assassins willing to risk apprehension in the process of attempted murder.
More currently newspapers in Scandinavia received an admonitory legal notice from a law firm located in Saudi Arabia. "Over the past months my law firm has been contacted by several thousand descendants of the Prophet, who have learned about your newspaper's republication of the drawing, depicting their esteemed ancestor as a terrorist suicide bomber with a bomb in his turban.
"As descendants of the Prophet, these individuals feel personally insulted, emotionally distressed and defamed by your newspaper's re-publication of the drawing. They have therefore retained my law firm and instructed me to approach you. It is my belief that your newspaper's fulfilment of the above-mentioned conditions would be perceived as a sign of respect and understanding throughout the Muslim world in general, and your newspaper might thus help resolve the severe conflict, with your re-publication of the drawing has created.
"As you may be aware, this conflict is still affecting Danish and Arab interests, in particular in the Middle East, where a number of Danish products are still being boycotted..."
The law firm principal claims to represent the hurt feelings of 94,923 descendants of the Prophet Mohammad. The threat of the potential wrath of Muslims in those numbers falling on those who continue to take the sacred and revered personage of the founder of Islam and teacher of Islam's foundations, spokesman for Allah in sacrilegious disrepute is fundamentally clear.
The sinister underpinning message of the cease and desist order lest a new rash of killings, embassy-burning and other elements of distressed dissatisfaction with the West be unleashed is abundantly and realistically another manifestation of the power of the few to exploit the sensibilities of the many to successfully instill fear by malevolent blackmail.
This complementary component to violent jihad is no less successful in inspiring its victims to terror than the original dedication to chaos, destruction and mass murder. The latter manifestation of a more 'civil' type of repression of freedom of expression is obviously succeeding in some measure to silence those who attempt to face fanatical Islamists with the hyprocrisy of their ideology.
One can only wonder what might result if similar tactics were to be undertaken by those whom Islamists have slandered and whose lives have been shattered by clerical incitements to violence and mayhem. Not only has the West fallen victim to the viciousness of fundamentalist Islam, but we have obediently, as civil peoples, extended to them the methods by which they may mete out additional discipline through our supine fear of confrontation.
Labels: Human Relations, Human Rights, Realities, Religion
posted by Pieface @ Monday, March 15, 2010
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